Direction of arrival estimation apparatus for communication based train control system using ESPAR antenna

Author

Webber, Julian ; Tsukamoto, Satoshi ; Ano, Susumu ; Kukutsu, Naoya ; Kumagai, Tomoaki

Author_Institution

Adv. Telecommun. Res. Inst. Int., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2015

fDate

3-5 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

54

Abstract

A 12-element Electronically Steerable Parasitic Array Radiator (ESPAR) antenna system has been designed for direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation as part of a railway control system. The DoA is estimated using the cross-correlation and MUSIC algorithms. Whilst a majority of reported DoA estimation systems typically operate in wideband WLAN or ISM band systems with a static condition, our narrowband system operates with mobility in the UHF band at 4800 Baud within about a 6.5 kHz bandwidth. Our experimental results show that the developed system can estimate the number of the component multi-path waves.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna arrays; correlation methods; direction-of-arrival estimation; mobile antennas; mobility management (mobile radio); rail traffic control; signal classification; wireless LAN; DoA estimation; ESPAR antenna system; ISM band systems; MUSIC algorithm; UHF band; communication based train control system; cross-correlation algorithm; direction of arrival estimation apparatus; electronically steerable parasitic array radiator antenna system; multipath waves; narrowband system; wideband WLAN; Arrays; Control systems; Direction-of-arrival estimation; Directive antennas; Estimation; Multiple signal classification; ESPAR antenna; MUSIC; beam-forming; cross-correlation; direction-of-arrival; train radio system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Information, Networking, and Wireless Communications (DINWC), 2015 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Moscow

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6375-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DINWC.2015.7054216

Filename

7054216